Uwe Klöckner-Draga

Uwe Klöckner-Draga (born February 14, 1963 ) is a German author , theater director and actor .

biography

At the age of 14, Uwe Klöckner-Draga was on a stage in Düsseldorf for the first time : “Orpheus in the Underworld” by Jacques Offenbach , at the side of Hanne Wieder , in the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . Directed by Bohumil Herlischka . After training as an actor, he worked at many theaters and television stations. At the beginning of the 1980s, he worked with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on a film expose, which marked the beginning of Klöckner-Draga's journalistic activity. His writing focuses on film and theater history and politics. He became known through the biography of Lilian Harvey . In 2006 his book about the Reinhard student Renate Müller was published, “Renate Müller - your life, a tightrope act. A German film star who was not allowed to love a Jew ” . He lived in Düsseldorf, Munich , Hamburg , Paris and America and now lives in Berlin .

Literature (selection)

• "Throw away so you don't lose ..." Lilian Harvey - biography of a movie star. Edition q, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-86124-500-0
• "Renate Müller - your life a tightrope act" A German film star who was not allowed to love a Jew. Verlag Kern, 2006 ISBN 3-939478-01-6
• "Mysterious and tragic" - Ufa star Sybille Schmitz was born 100 years ago in: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung (PAZ), Hamburg No. 48, November 28, 2009
• "Marianne Hoppe" - 100 years ago the grande dame of German theater was born in: Theater-pur, magazine for NRW, June 2009
• "Character actor with an exotic image" - 60 years ago the great East Prussian actor Paul Wegener died in: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung (PAZ), Hamburg No. 37, September 13, 2008